Deploying on windows phone 8.1

Question

I installed the last version of visual studio to target windows phone 8.1 OS. After the installation I figured out that the 8.1 OS was not yet released and I couldn't deploy my application on my device. Can I target the windows phone 8.0 version when building the application?

Answer 1

Select This Project Template & It will prompt you to select your targeting Windows Phone OS

But Once you have targeted 8.1 you can't deploy on a 8.0 device or emulator.

Answer 2

Yes you can. Go to your project properties and there on your application tab, you can select the target OS.